Red sails, green boat

Walking along the seafront, along the promenade at Portstewart in Northern Ireland, we came across this extraordinary and beautiful sculpture. At first we couldn’t make out what it was but just circled it admiringly, was it seaweed, was it a boat, a sea-bird, a fish, was it something from some Irish legend? It didn’t take […]

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A secret wedding

I’ve mentioned before that when I have finished writing a novel, the characters don’t just end their ‘lives’ but their stories continue in my imagination. I won’t give away which book it is, but a happy conclusion has been reached by two of the characters… if you’ve read any of my books you can choose […]

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Bark bark 2

Every time we visit Northern Ireland we find a new and interesting place to explore; this time it was Mountsandel, now a lovely forest walk but once the site of the earliest known human activity in Ireland, a camp made nearly 10,000 (yes ten thousand) years ago. There was a wonderful variety of trees, elms, […]

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